A Measure of Religiosity That Is Extremely Consistent but Is

question 20

Multiple Choice

A measure of religiosity that is extremely consistent but is actually targeting the respondent's political affiliation could be considered:

• A)partially reliable, completely valid.
• B)valid and reliable.
• C)not valid, but reliable.
• D)neither valid nor reliable.
• E)valid, but not reliable.

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Definitions:

Sum of Squares

A statistical technique used to measure the variation or dispersion of a set of values, by quantifying the summation of the squared differences between each value and the mean of the set.

Deseasonalized Time Series

A time series from which seasonal effects have been removed to analyze the underlying trend without seasonal variability.

Moving Averages

Moving averages are statistical measures used to analyze data points by creating a series of averages of different subsets of the full data set.

Mean Absolute Deviation

The average of the absolute differences of each data point from the data set's mean.